The at a Glance series is popular among medical students and junior doctors for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.
Each bite-sized chapter incorporates colour summary diagrams with corresponding explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory subject texts or for revision purposes, and are useful throughout medical school and beyond.
Everything you need to know about Medical Statistics...at a Glance!
Medical Statistics at a Glance is a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid for this complex subject. The self-contained chapters explain the underlying concepts of medical statistics and provide a guide to the most commonly used statistical procedures.
This new edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance:
* Presents key facts accompanied by clear and informative tables and diagrams
* Focuses on illustrative examples which show statistics in action, with an emphasis on the interpretation of computer data analysis rather than complex hand calculations
* Includes extensive cross-referencing, a comprehensive glossary of terms and flow-charts to make it easier to choose appropriate tests
* Now provides the learning objectives for each chapter
* Includes a new chapter on Developing Prognostic Scores
* Includes new or expanded material on study management, multi-centre studies, sequential trials, bias and different methods to remove confounding in observational studies, multiple comparisons, ROC curves and checking assumptions in a logistic regression analysis
* The companion website at www.medstatsaag.com contains supplementary material including an extensive reference list and multiple choice questions (MCQs) with interactive answers for self-assessment.
Medical Statistics at a Glance will appeal to all medical students, junior doctors and researchers in biomedical and pharmaceutical disciplines.
* Preface
* Learning objectives
* Handling data
1. Types of data
2. Data entry
3. Error checking and outliers
4. Displaying data graphically
5. Describing data: the ‘average’
6. Describing data: the ‘spread’
7. Theoretical distributions: the Normal distribution
8. Theoretical distributions: other distributions
9. Transformations
* Sampling and Estimation
10. Sampling and sampling distributions
11. Confidence intervals
* Study Design
12. Study design I
13. Study design II
14. Clinical trials
15. Cohort studies
16. Case - control studies
* Hypothesis Testing
17. Hypothesis testing
18. Errors in hypothesis testing
* Basic techniques for analysing data
* Numerical Data
19. Numerical data: a single group
20. Numerical data: two related groups
21. Numerical data: two unrelated groups
22. Numerical data: more than two groups
* Categorical Data
23. Categorical data: a single proportion
24. Categorical data: two proportions
25. Categorical data: more than two categories
* Regression and Correlation
26. Correlation 67
27. The theory of linear regression
28. Performing a linear regression analysis
29. Multiple linear regression
30. Binary outcomes and logistic regression
31. Rates and Poisson regression
32. Generalized linear models
33. Explanatory variables in statistical models
* Important Considerations
34. Bias and confounding
35. Checking assumptions
36. Sample size calculations
37. Presenting results
* Additional Chapters
38. Diagnostic tools
39. Assessing agreement
40. Evidence-based medicine
41. Methods for clustered data
42. Regression methods for clustered data
43. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
44. Survival analysis
45. Bayesian methods
46. Developing prognostic scores
* Appendices
* A - Statistical tables
* B - Altman’s nomogram for sample size calculations
* C - Typical computer output
* D - Glossary of terms
* Index
Reviews of the previous editions
"The more familiar I have become with this book, the more I appreciate the clear presentation and unthreatening prose. It is now a valuable companion to my formal statistics course."
–International Journal of Epidemiology
"I heartily recommend it, especially to first years, but it's equally appropriate for an intercalated BSc or Postgraduate research. If statistics give you headaches - buy it. If statistics are all you think about - buy it."
–GKT Gazette
"...I unreservedly recommend this book to all medical students, especially those that dislike reading reams of text. This is one book that will not sit on your shelf collecting dust once you have graduated and will also function as a reference book."
4th Year Medical Student, Barts and the London Chronicle, Spring 2003
